How do metal detectors work?
You know the drill: hand luggage in the X-ray thingy, put coins-phone-keys-bracelets-watch-necklace in the tray and ready for the metal detector. How the eff does it know I forgot to take off my stupid belt?!
Tag: Holidays
Circles, social circles and Pi Day
Tuesday was Pi Day. The choice of which constant to celebrate probably had to do with its notoriety, but to celebrate a constant at all has much deeper roots. Continue reading Circles, social circles and Pi Day
Top 5 stories in (and around) physics of 2016
Maybe 2016 hasn’t been a great year in general, but at least for science it has. A year full of discoveries: expected, missed, surprising. From Solar System exploration to the frontiers of artificial intelligence, from the atomically small to the immensely big, it has been a busy year!
Here’s my personal top 5 news of this year. Sit back. Enjoy.
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Every snowflake is unique
No Christmas landscape is complete without snow. Lots of snow. And every little snowflake is unique, everyone knows that! How come, tho? Snow is nothing else than teeny tiny ice crystals that form in the clouds and stay solid all the way down to the ground. Water crystallizes around microscopic imperfections, like dust particles floating in the clouds. Once the initial nucleus is formed, the … Continue reading Every snowflake is unique
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